If you’re in a rush and need some last-minute Fantasy Premier League (FPL) advice, here’s a quick round-up of what you need to know about Gameweek 29.
WHEN’S THE FPL GAMEWEEK 29 DEADLINE?
There’s barely time to catch breath from the weekend, because FPL has a very quick turnaround. All transfers and team selections need to be done by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday 3 March.
WILL HAALAND, RICE + WILSON PLAY?
This doesn’t leave long to mull over the Winter Olympics-style flag ceremony that suddenly has lots of popular names labelled as injury doubts.
Erling Haaland (£14.7m) missed Manchester City’s win at Leeds United, an occasion where Nico O’Reilly (£5.1m) hurt his ankle. The same body part forced attacker Harry Wilson (£6.0m) off, soon after Fulham teammate Joachim Andersen (£4.5m) was declared too ill to take part.
Then, when Arsenal faced Chelsea, Declan Rice (£7.5m) was removed due to discomfort after 75 minutes.
Unfortunately, Tuesday’s press conferences brought mixed helpfulness from managers.
“[Haaland] feels much better but yesterday we didn’t train. Now we have training, we will decide today.
“The same [for O’Reilly], we’ll decide after training.” – Man City’s Pep Guardiola
“Joachim Andersen will be back in 100% sure. Harry Wilson is one of the players we have to keep assessing. Let’s see.” – Fulham’s Marco Silva
“I hope so. He was much better today. Obviously, we haven’t really trained because we have only two days to prepare the game. Hopefully, he’s going to be better tomorrow.” – Mikel Arteta on whether Arsenal’s Declan Rice is “okay”
So, should owners decide to sell, or hope for the best? Zophar hands out some advice in his latest Q&A piece.
WHO TO BUY
Several of these doubts are in ‘The Great and the Good’ template squad, where six of the 18 individuals were able to buy Virgil van Dijk (£6.1m) in time for his latest attacking return.
The same match saw Hugo Ekitike (£9.1m) finally haul, yet the Frenchman still makes our Goals Imminent table, alongside fellow forward Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£5.7m). Both could be good Haaland replacements.
In fact, Liverpool players make sense in all positions. The reigning champions are highly backed for a clean sheet and attacking returns versus Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Meanwhile, a timely fixture frisk article also points out the favourable runs awaiting Brentford and Fulham.
BEST FPL GAMEWEEK 29 CAPTAIN
With Haaland’s availability in doubt, there is armband mayhem.
The Captain Sensible article chooses between Bruno Fernandes (£10.0m), Hugo Ekitike and Antoine Semenyo (£8.2m), whereas our Rate My Team (RMT) algorithm likes a completely different trio of names.
TEAM REVEALS
SCOUT PICKS + DIFFERENTIALS
Our weekly selection – which is essentially a Free Hit in all but name – has Haaland.
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Anton Stach (£4.7m) make this bench, and are named in our trio of top differential picks.
PREDICTED LINE-UPS
We’ve predicted the starting XIs of all 20 Premier League teams.
Whatever you decide to do, good luck with FPL Gameweek 29!
